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N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap [1959]. Hard Cover. viii, 310 p., illus. "...the man who founded The New Yorker, was its editor from 1925 to 1951, and gave a whole new dimension to American art and letters. '...only James Thurber could have written so turbulent and affectionate an account of what it meant to spend twenty-five years on the staff of this 'irascible genius.' Here is Ross as seen by his most intimate associates." Dj chipped, torn, scuffed; good+. stock#24694/h.

Hamish Hamilton, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. First Edition Thus. 124 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Contains colour illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Harper & Bros., 1935. 'Fifth Edition'. Hard Cover. x, 227 p., illus.; 21 cm. Contents include The Departure of Emma Inch; There's an Owl in my Room; A Preface to Dogs; The State of Bontana; Mr. Pendly and the Poindexter; Mr. Preble Gets Rid of his Wife; A Portrait of Aunt Ida; The Civil War Phone-number Association; Hell Only Breaks Loose Once; If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox; How To See a Bad Play; The Black Magic of Barney Haller; Snapshot of a Dog; A Box To Hide In. Linen boards decorated in blue; spine darkened, ink owner name, no dj; VG. stock#24696/h.

N.Y., Harper & Bros. [1945; A wartime publication]. Hard Cover. xiii, 369 p., illus.; 22.5 cm. Too many people have come to grief trying to define and analyze James Thurber's particular genius for us to dare to do more than say simply that this is a selection of his best writings and drawings, sifted from the whole of his work during the past fifteen years. However, we are quite willing to go on record as saying flatly that we doubt if any book published in 1945 will contain as much concentrated brilliance, wild humor, and innocent wisdom. Contents include Stories Not Collected Before in Book Form; from My World and Welcome to It; from Let Your Mind Alone; from The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze; My Life and Hard Times, complete; from Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated; from The Owl in the Attic; from The Seal in the Bedroom; from Men, Women and Dogs; The War Between Men and Women. Covers soiled/ no dj; good. Stock#24695/h.

Hamish Hamilton, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 124 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with yellow lettering over red cloth. Colour illustrations throughout. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Clipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, large tears and loss to edges and corners. Notable foxing, staining and soiling to DJ.

N.Y., Harper & Brothers [1961]. Hard Cover. xv, 215 pages, illustrations (line drawings). "Next to pleasure, which we have come to expect from James Thurber, reassurance is his principal gift to his readers... that somebody (Thurber) is still sane, and that he still cares enough about our world and certain of its works, notably our once sweet English tongue, to go on fighting for their slim chance of survival. Many of the pieces here, none of which has ever before appeared in book form, are concerned with exposing the frightful losses which our language has already suffered without anyone noticing." Dj clipped, a bit worn; top edge spotted; ink owner name; VG. Stock#24697/h.

N.Y., Harper & Brothers [1957]. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. xii, 367 pages, illustranions (line drawings). "A book for people who like to laugh & know how to think, selected from Thurber's work over the last twenty years-- one-third of the text never before in book form." By a New Yorker contributor. Dust jacket clipped, torn; ink owner name; good. stock#24698/h.

New York: Perennial Library / Harper & Row, 1965. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Tight clean & square, flat spine, 113 pages with illustrations through-out by Thurber, Very Good condition with some toning to page edges, ink name, minor edge wear, small front corner crease, with a light toning streak to front cover (check out the scans). . 1st Perennial Library Edition . Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by James Thurber; .

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1946. -----Brown cloth with red design and lettering, red top egde, deckle front edge, (x) 227 pages, with drawing by James Thurber, ink name on ffep, minor shelf wear, Very Good condition, dust jacket is in Very Good condition with small chipping at spine head, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by James Thurber . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1962-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. in x in x in. Penguin Books 1962. Condition Very Good. Paperback bound in card pictorial wraps. Slightly tanned pages. Binding tight. Minor wear.

'First Edition'. "A new collection of drawings of male and female animals including the human." Hardcover. xi, [2], 14-208 pages, index. Dust jacket clipped, top edge rolls out with small tears; edges foxed, ink inscription; Good+. stock#24699/h.

London : Hamish Hamilton, (1962). First edition : precedes the American edition. A posthumously published collection of twenty-one pieces, including "Menaces in May", "The Lady from the Land", "The Manic in the Moon", etc., with a preface by Helen Thurber. Demy 8vo (23cm). (xii),180pp. Illustrations by Thurber. Original red boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good copy in the original Thurber dust-jacket - a design in yellow, black and red - also very good.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [Humour] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 340. With numerous illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with brown titles to spine, and brown dog device to upper. With the orange dust-jacket, also illustrated by the author, priced at 12/6. Jacket quite heavily sunned to spine, with some chipping and several closed tears to edges. Very good.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.180. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles and publisher's imprint in gilt to spine. Yellow dustjacket with illustrations by the author, titles in black and red to front cover and spine, clipped. Internally clean, with foxing just beginning to flyleaves, negligible tanning to margins. Binding is rubbed, bumped to corners, with a slight lean. Dustwrapper is rubbed and worn, with chips and tears to edges and at joints, minor loss to spine ends, a touch grubby. Compiled by his wife, Helen Thurber, after his death, this collection represents a summation of his final concerns. The blurb on the jacket characterises this work as containing "what he believed in, what he found funny and what, occasionally, he found sad

HUEBER, 1975. 4.. softcover. Explanatory notes!